NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Performing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in high-risk patients without placing them on cardiopulmonary bypass does not increase their risk of short-term…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – For hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) larger than 2 cm, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is the best ablative therapy, a meta-analysis shows – but for smaller…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Adding trastuzumab (Herceptin) to standard chemotherapy can significantly improve event-free survival in women with HER2-positive locally advanced or inflammatory breast cancer, according to…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – L-carnitine supplements can improve liver function, liver histology and other manifestations of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), Italian researchers say. “L-carnitine supplementation induces regression of…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Tight glycemic control may increase the risks of mortality and cardiovascular disease, new research suggests. Moderate control, with glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with hypertensive nephropathy and metabolic acidosis, alkali treatment reduces tubulointerstitial injury and slows the decline in glomerular filtration rate (GFR), a…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Starting heparin in the emergency department (ED) rather than after admission may improve the survival of patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Only two visits to the pulmonary function lab — one for pre- and post-bronchodilatory spirometry and one for a methacholine challenge test —…
Miguel Materin, MD, Director of Ocular Oncology Section, Yale Eye Center, discusses uveal melanoma treatment which depends on saving the patient’s life before consideration of saving the eye…
Gary Small, MD, Director, UCLA Center on Aging, University of California, Los Angeles, discusses a recent study, “Your Brain on Google” in which blood flow patterns were compared…
Richard J Shemin, MD, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses minimally invasive cardiac surgery using the Da Vinci Robot, which now gives patients…
Arya Nick Shamie, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedic and Neurosurgery, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, discusses minimally invasive spine surgery and the reasons why it has taken…
